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  • Netflix boasts 37% share of Internet traffic in North America, compared with 3% for Apple's iTunes

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    josu said:

    rogifan_old said:
    Which is stupid. Why should Apple get 30% of the $10 I pay Netflix every month? Apple's not hosting this content. Even if one argues that Apple should get a commission for driving business to Netflix should that be a recurring monthly commission based on people's subscriptions? I would argue no. When I signed for Netflix I did so on their website so I would assume Apple is not getting a 30% cut?
    Is speaking about the in app purchases, where Apple gets the 30% cut. I did it that way, easy, no need to give your credit card, you can charge your iTunes account with iTunes cards and by default is active the automatic renovation.
    I agree that in-app purchasing is super convenient. I'm just not sold on Apple taking 30% of subscription fees. Especially when the subscription price is then raised to cover the 30% like Spotify does. Does it really cost Apple $3 to process a monthly subscription fee for Netflix?
    cnocbuisingularity

  • Netflix boasts 37% share of Internet traffic in North America, compared with 3% for Apple's iTunes

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    red oak said:
    Apple is getting 30% on an increasing portion of Netflix's revenue.   The Netflix app is #12 top grossing  

    this is seems to be completely under the radar
    Which is stupid. Why should Apple get 30% of the $10 I pay Netflix every month? Apple's not hosting this content. Even if one argues that Apple should get a commission for driving business to Netflix should that be a recurring monthly commission based on people's subscriptions? I would argue no. When I signed for Netflix I did so on their website so I would assume Apple is not getting a 30% cut?
    gatorguyjonlcnocbuisingularitywiggindasanman69

  • Key Apple TV designer Ben Keighran leaves Apple with startup plans in mind

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    Hmm...this is interesting. According to the re/code piece this guy was responsible for TV software UI but reported up through Eddy Cue, not the user interface team. Which just confirms something I've long suspected: the user interface team under Jony Ive (technically Tim Cook) isn't responsible for all UI, just OS X, iOS and watchOS. iTunes, Music and TV have their own UI teams.
    brakkenpalomineDeeeds

  • Apple's 2015 EEO-1 report shows slow progress toward workplace diversity

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    Just hire the best people irrespective of their gender, ethnicity or skin color.
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  • After abandoning iAd revenue, Apple Inc can reintroduce an ad-free internet

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    Herbivore2 said:
    I can't stand advertisements. It's the main reason I purchase my music, shows and movies. I would gladly pay for ad free news content. Unfortunately, they don't provide that option. When I purchase news content, it still comes with advertising which I resent.

     Hence paying for news content means that the content producers get to double dip so to speak. They gladly take my money then load up on advertisements anyway. 

    If Apple were to adopt the Google approach to advertising, I would abandon the platform. I would just buy a Samsung phone. Why stay on largely inferior hardware when iOS offers nothing of substance over Android? 

    Granted, Apple produces a great SOC, but Samsung's DRAM, flash and panel technology is superior to virtually everyone else. If it weren't for the spyware OS known as Android, I would already have left Apple. So too would many of my own family. 

    Apple's stance on privacy keeps me on their platform. None of my devices uses anything from Google. And I do a considerable amount of online business. 

    As an aside, it makes sense that Google's market valuation is so high and with a fraction of Apple's profits. I am beginning to realize that it isn't all a wallstreet phenomenon. There are a lot of businesses who stand to fail if Google's advertising model comes to ruin. They have to support Google as their very livelihood depends on it. Unfortunately for Google, their model of search driven advertising revenue is coming to an end. 

    I use Amazon's app for most of my online shopping. I left the search engine long ago. I did find that a general purpose search engine did a better job at searching eBay than ebay's own but that is no longer the case.  My wife uses the Nordstrom app and even for appleinsider I use the app.

    Apple can lock Google out of the most lucrative mobile platform on the market. Without the iOS market, Google loses the most important group of users when attempting to utilize their data analytics software. All of the talk about their artificial intelligence will be meaningless. Google will profile the users that have little meaning to the advertisers. 

    I rarely initiate a search on a desktop machine these days. Over 99% of my computing time is now spent on iOS. I don't use a single Google product and abandoned Yahoo search, consequently spending virtually no time on their web portal when Mayer incorporated Google search back into Yahoo. 

    Google search, Google play and Google services in general have no marketshare in China either. Android is forked and Apple devices are doing quite well in China. Cook is doing a lot of things right. 

    It's time to be patient. Apple is going to mop the floor with Google's carcass. It's only a matter of time. 

    I'm amazed that a post calling Apple's hardware "largely inferior" got 4 likes....all because of the Google bashing. I swear some people here hate Google more than they like Apple and your post is proof of that. 
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